| Description |
262 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Thinking gender |
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Thinking gender.
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| Contents |
Hilde Lindemann Nelson -- Families and Feminist Theory: Some Past and Present Issues / Susan Moller Okin -- The Myth of the Traditional Family / Linda Nicholson -- "The Family" and Radical Family Theory / Naomi Zack -- Are Families Out of Date? / Mary Midgley and Judith Hughes -- Babystrike! / Laura M. Purdy -- Feminism by Any Other Name / Michele M. Moody-Adams -- Fluid Families: The Role of Children in Custody Arrangements / Elise L. E. Robinson, Hilde Lindemann Nelson and James Lindemann Nelson -- Privacy, Self-Knowledge, and Pluralistic Communes: An Invitation to the Epistemology of the Family / John Hardwig -- Addiction and Knowledge: Epistemic Disease and the Hegemonic Family / Judith Bradford and Crispin Sartwell -- Family Outlaws: Rethinking the Connections between Feminism, Lesbianism, and the Family / Cheshire Calhoun -- Who Takes Care of the Maid's Children? Exploring the Costs of Domestic Service / Mary Romero |
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Child Abuse and Neglect: Cross-Cultural Considerations / Francoise Baylis and Jocelyn Downie -- Gays, Lesbians, and the Use of Alternate Reproductive Technologies / Sidney Callahan -- The Idea of Fatherhood / Sara Ruddick -- Sexuality, the Family, and Nationalism / Bat-Ami Bar On -- The Family Romance: A Fin-de-Siecle Tragedy / Diana Tietjens Meyers |
| Summary |
This groundbreaking volume of all new essays covers two topics - feminism and families - which, for all their centrality in our culture, have not been adequately examined in light of one another. While the family has suffered feminist neglect, most women in fact live their lives within the social context of families, even at a time when the concept of "family" has become bewilderingly unstable. The intersection of families and feminism is thus in need of philosophical reflection, as a basis both for good public policy and for the ethical relationships of intimate life |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Families.
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Feminism.
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| Author |
Lindemann, Hilde.
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| LC no. |
96028729 |
| ISBN |
0415912539 (hc : alk. paper) |
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0415912547 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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